Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 3141

 

Health Insurance Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 24 November 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Neal Blewett

Minister of State for Community Services and Health

 

Commencement

1. (1) Regulation 2 shall be taken to have commenced on 1 August 1987.

(2) Regulation 3 shall be taken to have commenced on 1 August 1988.

2. After regulation 2ac of the Health Insurance Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Prescribed amount—paragraph 13 (2) (b) of the Act

“2aca. For the purposes of paragraph 13 (2) (b) of the Act, where the examining optometrist has certified on the patient’s account that, in his or her professional opinion, the patient had an ocular condition which necessitated a further course of attention being commenced within 36 months of the previous initial consultation, the prescribed amount is $99.”.

Prescribed amount—paragraph 13 (2) (b) of the Act

3. Regulation 2acaof the Health Insurance Regulations is amended by omitting “$99” and substituting “$104”.

 

(S.R. 280/88)—Cat. No. 16/27.9.1988

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 2 December 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80 as amended by 1975 Nos. 118, 125 and 135 (commenced 3 July 1975; disallowed 4 September 1975); 1976 Nos. 202, 214 and 215; 1977 Nos. 26 and 44; 1978 Nos. 95 and 177; 1979 No. 230; 1981 Nos. 198 and 317; 1982 Nos. 157, 251 and 287; 1983 Nos. 106, 231, 253 and 255; 1984 Nos. 5 and 162; 1985 Nos. 36, 50, 95, 205 and 290 (commenced 7 November 1985; disallowed 15 April 1986); 1986 Nos. 19, 20, 87 and 326; 1987 Nos. 32, 163 and 166.

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